How to see the serial number of an SSD in Windows
The serial number is a unique product identifier that the manufacturer gives to it. Said numbering is generated completely randomly according to parameters specified by the manufacturer. Each manufacturer uses its own identification system. Above all, this information is important for warranty processing, as well as to learn more about a product or to purchase spare parts.
This information is printed on the SSD or the HDD, but accessing it can be very difficult. It becomes especially difficult if we are talking about an M.2 SSD, which will surely have a heatsink on top. For this reason we can ask Windows to give us this information. There are two methods that we will explain to you.
Using the command prompt
The first is possibly the most comfortable and simple in all ways. The command prompt itself will give us this information and any other information we need. We just have to follow the following steps:
- In the seeker from the bottom bar Windows we must introduce CMD or Command Promptand press enter
- A window with a black background will open.
- Now, you will need to enter the following command: wmic diskdrive get model, name, serialnumber and pressing the enter key
- We will see now the unit modelthe name assigned by Windows and the serial number
- Once we copy it, we can close the sale
Using PowerShell
This system is a little more advanced and it is designed for other tasks, but it will also show us this information. This console interface allows us to join commands through instructions. We will be able to obtain the serial number and the same information as in the previous case. The process is the following:
- In the seeker from the bottom bar Windows we must introduce PowerShell, and press enter
- A window with a blue background will open, in this case
- Now, you will need to enter the following command: Get-WMIObject win32_physicalmedia | Format-List Tag, SerialNumber and pressing the enter key
- We will now see the name assigned by Windows and the serial number
- Once we copy it, we can close the sale
Thanks to these two methods we will see the information on our storage unit without having to disassemble half of the computer. We hope this little tutorial has been useful to you.